Kent County Court Proceedings, 1656-1662.127





     Mathew Read brought into this Court a seruant Maide named Liber B
  Elisã Lockett at the age of sixteene yeares without Indentures, wch [fol. ‘71
  Acording to the Act of Asembly is to serue seauen yeares, but her
  Maister being willing to Accept of six yeares seruice, of the Maid
  seruant, the wch this court hath Assented vnto:

    John Erickson doth enter A Cauiat for 100 Acres of Land be- July 12th (*)
  gininge the south side of Stents Creeke in Pineny necke & soe 1658
  alonge the side of Coxes Creeke southerly by the water side

    Morgan Williams doth enter himselfe his wife & Sarah his Child 12th dito
  for Rights of Land in the yeare 1652 to be take vpp on the easterne
  shore or else where in the province not formerly taken up

    Joseph Wickes doth enter A Cauiat of Land for 15 saruants or 13th
  rights due to him Viz: Jos: Wickes John Meconnikin Will Dauies
  in the yeare 1650 John Morgan Edd Tarant in the yeare 1654: Ann
  Gold & A Negro in the yeare 55: Mrs Wicks & her two Children in
  the yeare 56; John Longthorne Ric: Huson & Eliz Eles in the yeare
  57: Francis & Tho Brookes in the yeare 56: these Rights are entred
  to be taken vpon the Eastren necke against the vper pt of kent:

       Proclamation By the Lie ftent Generall
    It beinge the undoubted Right of the Lord propriatory of this
  province of Mariland to dispose of all land wthin this Province when
  to whom & upon what Condicons hee pleasses, his Lops haueinge in
  his goodnesse pleased to propounde to all people in generall & in
  pticular to A People then Destitute of A place to inhabit Certaine
  Condi of Plantacons bearinge Date at Lond the second of July 1649,
  wch Conditions to be granted the number of Articles to be granted
  to euery pson his LOPS For the good of the Collony in genarall
  Thought Fitt afterwards to reduce to A lesser numb then Formerly
  by his Declaracon bereinge Date the 26th of August 1651 And pub
  lished to the generall Assembly of this Province, wch Condicons of
  Plantacons wth such alteracon as afore sd doe still remmaine in
  Force & noe other, The punctuall pformance of them beinge the
  Roote of euery mans Right, I thought Fitt, for the Auoydinge of
  Future Disputes not wth standinge all former Condiscendings to any
  pson then Inhabitinge this Province whatsoeuer to require, all psons
  who haue since the 24th of March last past to this day, or shall here
  after come into this Province here to Inhabite to take notice of those
  his Lops Condicons & Declarations as aforesd as the only Title by
  wch they can Claime any Lands here, & punctually to pforme them as
   * Clerk John Cowrsey began here to pen the court records, superseding Clerk
  Leeds. Probably the county court was inactive between March 1i and July 12.
  Goy. Josias Fendall restored the authority of the lord proprietary on March 24
  and Cowrsey was made clerk on May 6 by commission.